Minnesota’s Republican congressional delegation all voted to approve the U.S. House’s budget proposal Tuesday night, a vote some state Republican legislators attempted to inform when they urged their federal colleagues to consider the expected harm to Minnesota from Medicaid cuts.
House GOP efforts to slash the popular social safety net would give Democrats fodder for the midterm elections.
House Republicans used a temporary majority to get the bill to the floor for a vote, but they did not have the 68 votes needed to actually pass legislation.
The U.S. House on Tuesday, Feb. 25, passed a budget proposal that includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and $2 trillion in reduced federal spending over a decade. Among the proposals in the budget to accomplish these tax breaks and spending reductions are proposed cuts to Medicaid and a potential gutting of the Affordable Care Act,
The Minnesota House has rejected a bill that would have banned transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports.
Two Minnesota GOP Senate leaders called on Gov. Tim Walz to apologize for remarks he made earlier this week in which they claim he compared Republicans to "fascists and Nazis."
The Minnesota delegation in the U.S. House split on a GOP budget blueprint Tuesday evening that calls for deep spending cuts.
Gov. Walz blasts Trump's latest round of tariffs
Republican 3rd District Congressman Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin and GOP 1st District Congressman Brad Finstad of Minnesota both issued statements following the House passage of a budget resolution
Minnesota's GOP senators propose SF 916 to ban trans girls from girls' sports, with the Senate Queer Caucus opposing as discriminatory.
A Republican-led bill to bar transgender girls from competing on girls and women’s elementary and secondary school sports teams in Minnesota was hotly debated on the state House floor Monday before failing to pass.
The measures that were approved include creating an incentive program for state agencies to save money and prohibiting organizations that get state funding from spending those dollars on political causes.
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